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Walking is just one way to pull yourself out of the workplace and give yourself time and space to focus on the problem. Rich Hickey has a great talk "Hammock D
by thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
Walking is just one way to pull yourself out of the workplace and give yourself time and space to focus on the problem.
Rich Hickey has a great talk "Hammock Driven Development" in which he describes the value of giving your mind time to think deeply about a problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
- photochemsyn 3y agoTrue, see also the Leo Szilard two-hour-bathtub session approach. Although reports are that he also used the walking method: > "When Szilard told the story later he never mentioned his destination that morning. He may have had none; he often walked to think." https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/leo-szilard-a-traffic-light-and-a-slice-of-nuclear-history/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...
- psychoslave 3y agoIt’s not necessarily that much time. It’s not rare that I block hard on some issue for a significant time, and the moment I stand up and go to the kitchen making some dishes, the solution pops up.
- digging 3y agoTrue, but walking has additional physical-health benefits.